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howtobecomeadragon

smallville: clark and lana

bones: bones and booth

stranger things: umm no they're not romantic

frogsdontcry

it's casual

shikako123

Though nothing will keep us together

chirpsythismorning

The way the Wheeler's basement door got the Truman Show treatment, blue sky, This is it. This is where I woke up. and all, only for it to be the last shot of the show??

eradne

ju-nebugg

every universe except this one, i guess.

miwiheroes

the last shared look that mike gives to will is the most romantic look that mike has ever given to him or anyone in the whole show. that includes the van scene, that includes the sorcerer scene.

miwiromantics

It’s always gotta be some fuckass painting,

that godamn swing set,

a traumatised gay boy

and finn fucking wolfhard at the crime scene

I quit.

mona07

this is insanee

bylerworld

he is so in love with him i need to be locked up

miwiheroes

Watching this video and him getting more and more disappointed as the episode goes on is chilling me ngl. This is the version of the script that didn't even have the tower scene in it btw, so this is him as a queer actor realising that they gave his character absolutely no closure and a shitty arc where he "realises" that the love of his life was just a crush to get over in a day without anything from said crush to determine if he's fine with that. He's been the *gay consultant* for the show since the beginning and he was so excited to read the script for episode 4 when he had powers, he probably was excited to see where his characters' powers took the character arc but no, they really just gave him nothing in this episode and the fact he was terrified to go up to the Duffers and ask for a little scene change speaks volumes.

bylerworld

i'm still here in case you were wondering

an eyebrow scrunch.....a lip stare.......a smile.........he is sooooo crazy

narrativelogicofbyler

i think about byler in a way that’s less “shipping discourse” and more the quiet grief of watching a genuinely groundbreaking narrative slip through the cracks. it’s that particular ache you only get when you understand the craft, when you can see the scaffolding, the emotional architecture, the cinematographic cues, all pointing toward a story that was ready to mean something. not just to fans, but to the medium.

finn and noah had the kind of chemistry you don’t teach. it’s the sort of on screen connection that directors build entire seasons around, the kind that lets you hold a shot a beat longer because the actors can carry the silence. their scenes already had that charged stillness, that soft, trembling intimacy that cinematographers dream of capturing. the camera loved them, not in a flashy way, but in that quiet, instinctive way where the frame leans in because it knows something is happening.

and maybe that’s why it hurts so much. because from a craft perspective, they were positioned to break boundaries in a genre that desperately needed it. they could have shifted the emotional centre of the story, not through shock value, but through honesty. through the kind of queer tenderness that rarely gets to exist in mainstream sci‑fi without being coded, sidelined, or softened into metaphor.

there was magic there, real, cinematic magic. the kind you recognise instantly when you’ve studied this stuff, when you’ve spent years analysing how performance, blocking, colour, and subtext braid together to create meaning. it was all right there, humming under the surface, waiting for someone in the writers’ room to trust what the camera was already telling us.

and the saddest part is knowing that potential doesn’t disappear just because it went unused. it lingers. it becomes a ghost of the story we could have had. a reminder of how rare it is to see chemistry like that, and how easily it can be left on the cutting room floor.

onstoryladders

do they know they didn't do any of this

flowermyg

"you're just mad at the duffers because byler didn't happen"the writers and directors of the show needed maya hawke to remind them while filming that lucas didn't know robin is a lesbian in the 80's who is dating vickie, so they should whisper about their date at enzo's and their relationship instead of talking loudly about it. yeah, they totally handled very well queer representation.